TAPPER: NCS’s truth checker Daniel Dale joins us now. Daniel, how precisely is Trump attempting to modify his personal conspiracy principle on election integrity to clarify how Steve Hilton is on the poll for the final election?
DALE: So, Jake, President Trump is a seasoned veteran conspiracy theorist, and like many longtime conspiracy theorists, he doesn’t abandon the conspiracy principle when info emerge to contradict it. What he does is what he’s doing right here, and that’s increase, modify, tweak the conspiracy principle in order that it accommodates the brand new info that have been — that contradicted the unique one.
So, the unique one, as he stated is that this election in California was rigged in opposition to Republicans, it was being rigged in opposition to folks like Steve Hilton. And then media shops like NCS projected that Hilton had actually superior to the November runoffs. So, the brand new model of the conspiracy principle is that Trump’s public strain, these claims that it was going to be rigged, was being rigged in opposition to Hilton, put a lot, quote, warmth on the would-be election riggers that these would-be riggers had to abandon their devious plan.
So, hear to what the president stated right now.
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TRUMP: It was every week, and it was heading south, and I began saying it’s a rigged election. And then they stated it was going to take two weeks, one week, two weeks, and swiftly he was permitted. You know why? Because the warmth was on. They couldn’t get away with it. If I didn’t do it, I assure he wouldn’t be the nominee. It’s a rigged election.
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DALE: All of that is whole nonsense. Nobody behind the scene has permitted Steve Hilton. All that occurred is that the vote rely continued. The vote rely confirmed that Mr. Hilton had earned sufficient votes that media shops may unofficially undertaking that he had superior to the runoff. That needs to be the tip, nevertheless it isn’t.
And I simply need to word, Jake, that is precisely the identical playbook that President Trump used 15 years in the past, 2011, together with his birther conspiracy lies that President Obama was not really born within the U.S. President Obama ultimately launched his lengthy type unique Hawaii delivery certificates displaying he was born in a U.S. state.
So, did President Trump abandon the lie then? No, after all not. Instead, he pivoted to a suggestion that delivery certificates was a forgery.
TAPPER: Daniel Dale, thanks a lot. Good to see you once more.